Rich Dad, Poor Dad

who controls the past controls the future, who controls the present controls the past.
A Lesson From Robert Frost
Robert Frost is my favourite poet. Although I love many of his poems, my
favorite is The Road Not Taken. I use its lesson almost daily:
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And
be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it
bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear Though as for that the passing there Had
worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh,
I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads onto way, I doubted
if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence; Two
roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made
all the difference.
Robert Frost(1916)
And that made all the difference.
Over the years, I have often reflected upon Robert Frost's poem. Choosing
not to listen to my highly educated dad's advice and attitude about money was a
painful decision, but it was a decision that shaped the rest of my life.
Once I made up my mind whom to listen to, my education about money began.
My rich dad taught me over a period of 30 years, until I was age 39. He stopped
once he realized that I knew and fully understood what he had been trying to
drum into my often thick skull.
Money is one form of power. But what is more powerful is financial
education. Money comes and goes, but if you have the education about how money
works, you gain power over it and can begin building wealth. The reason positive
thinking alone does not work is because most people went to school and never
learned how money works, so they spend their lives working for money.
Because I was only 9 years old when I started, the lessons my rich dad
taught me were simple. And when it was all said and done, there were only six
main lessons, repeated over 30 years. This book is about those six lessons, put
as simply as possible as my rich dad put forth those lessons to me. The lessons